Heart Failure News & Features
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Modified Pig Heart Successfully Implanted into Human Body
The experimental procedure could enable future widespread use of xenotransplantation to treat end-stage heart failure.
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Sitting Again Linked to Disease, Death, But Exercise May Help
People who sit for 8 or more hours each day are at increased risk for heart disease and dying early, while increasing physical activity offsets the risks of prolonged sitting, in a new study.
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Does Cutting Back on Salt Help Improve Heart Failure?
New research finds that while limiting salt doesn't prevent death or hospitalization among heart failure patients, it does appear to improve their quality of life.
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The Emotional Impact of Heart Failure
Heart failure affects more than just your heart. You might struggle with depression and anxiety, too. Here’s what you need to know.
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What to Expect When Living With Heart Failure
Breathlessness, fatigue, and trouble sleeping are some of the more common symptoms of heart failure. But they can be treated. Here’s what you need to know.
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Heart Failure: What I Wish I'd Known
A single mom shares how she came back from a coma and heart failure diagnosis, and turned her health around with diet, exercise, and medication.
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Daily Aspirin Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Failure
Researchers found that among more than 30,000 patients who were at risk for developing heart failure, the risk for those taking daily aspirin was 26% higher than those not taking it over about 5 years of follow up
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How the Pandemic Changed Heart Failure Treatment
A leading cardiologist explains how the pandemic affected physicians’ approach to caring for heart failure patients -- and how it may change in the future.
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Heart Failure in a Post-Quarantine World
Diagnosed with heart failure during the COVID pandemic, one woman learned how to live with the condition -- and to thrive with it.
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Caring for Your Mental Health Along With Heart Failure
If you have heart failure, you’re at greater risk for mental health issues like depression and anxiety. Here’s how to get the help you need.
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Air and Noise Pollution Linked to Increased Heart Failure
New observational data suggests that exposure to air pollution and road traffic noise is associated with an increased risk for new heart failure.
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Injectable Patch Shows Promise for Heart Attack Recovery
An experimental patch works to restore function to damaged areas of the heart, which could ward off irregular heartbeats and heart failure.
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Common Myths and Misconceptions About Heart Failure
A diagnosis of heart failure is no longer a death sentence, but it takes education, advocacy, and awareness to get the care you need to live your best life.
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How Getting Healthy Helps Me Live My Best With Heart Failure
It can be scary to have a diagnosis of heart failure, but a healthy lifestyle can really help keep the disease in check. Here’s what a nurse who has heart failure herself wants you to know.
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How the Latest Technology Can Help You Manage Heart Failure
Learn about some of the latest tools you can use to manage your heart failure, from medical devices to apps and text messages.
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Signs That Chronic Heart Failure Is Getting Worse
As heart failure gets worse and fluid collects, most people will notice signs like shortness of breath, fatigue, and weight gain.
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What Does Ejection Fraction Have to Do With Heart Failure?
Here’s what you should know about this measure of heart health and what it means for your heart failure.
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Staying Active With Advancing Heart Failure
An expert in cardiac rehabilitation explains how exercise can improve the outcome for people with heart failure, and how to get the most out of this program.
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For Heart’s Sake: Lifestyle Changes I Had to Make
For Heart’s Sake: Lifestyle Changes I Had to Make
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Treatments: Failure’s Not an Option
You and your care team have a number of different options when it comes to treating heart failure. It all starts with a change in lifestyle.
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Daily Coffee Tied to Lower Risk for Heart Failure
Having one or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce your risk of heart failure, new research suggests.
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Can a Wellness App Help People With Heart Failure?
Mobile apps can make it easier to balance everything you need to manage heart failure.
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How to Find Support for Heart Failure
By tapping more support, people with heart failure can learn how to feel their best and help motivate each other.
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Heart Failure and Life Expectancy
With better medication and care, doctors are helping people with heart failure improve the quality and length of their lives.
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How Marijuana Affects Heart Failure
If you have heart failure and you smoke or eat marijuana, learn more about how the drug might affect your condition.
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